CVE-2014-8138

jasper: heap overflow in jp2_decode() (oCERT-2014-012)

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

6.8

CVSS 2.0

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Published · December 18, 2014

Updated · June 28, 2026

Description

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way JasPer decoded JPEG 2000 image files. A specially crafted file could cause an application using JasPer to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 6.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CWE-122 · Heap-based Buffer Overflow